Sam Davies

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The world first met gyrofield because of a joke. It was 2019, and Kiana Li was a teenage music producer making beats on her computer from her bedroom in Hong Kong. She had 2,000 Soundcloud followers. “That was a good time,” she says with a smile. “I was feeling like anything could happen. I just had to make the music to see.”

Every football fan of a certain age has said it. You see a concrete five-a-side pitch, or someone playing a one-two with a wall, or any exhibition of football shamelessly prioritising style over substance and you announce to anyone who’ll listen: “Oi … this is like FIFA Street!”

Dinner with DJ Koze is delightful. He shows me to a Thai restaurant in central Hamburg, down some steps and into a curtained room bubbling with atmosphere and charm. He studies the menu as though searching for secret meanings, then orders the pho, which is what he always gets. Then he laughs at my face as two beers arrive.

"There are no good girls": a history of the horror scream queen

The anonymous producer shares an 100% production mix and texts us their thoughts on modern club music, y2k nostalgia, and why phones should be dumb again

The staunch champion of garage is one of the UK’s most talented musicians, manipulating tracks at lightning speed. In a rare interview he discusses neurodiversity, being teetotal – and the truth about his fees.

“Ricochet,” a documentary newly available on Apple TV and Amazon, tells the story of the 2015 Kate Steinle killing and trial. This is an interview with its director Chihiro Wimbush.

600-word review of Mike Skinner's mix for fabric

The London MC was set for stardom before his career was derailed by the most infamous murder in grime. His crowning glory fused dubstep and authentic lyricism in ways that still pop today.

James Massiah is a DJ and “dub poet” who has written stanzas and spoken-word verses for everyone from Massive Attack to the King of England...

From illegal pirate radio to one of the most important musical institutions in the UK, we look back at some of Rinse FM’s key moments

Interviewing Vegyn isn’t easy. After three months of back-and-forth, I’m finally given a time to meet him on a gray day in early March at a coffee spot in east London. I’ve been eager to make this happen. Vegyn’s career is one of the most impressive in modern music, distinguished by collaboration, style, and a fair amount of mystery.

‘We’re making something on the edge of tomorrow’: Kode9, Jessy Lanza, Lee Gamble, Aya, Heavee and Loraine James on the legendary label’s past, present and future

Since first emerging with some of the loudest, fastest, most powerful music on record, Jlin has ascended well beyond the realms of 160 BPM. Her new album ‘Akoma’, featuring Björk and Philip Glass, is the work of a one-off composer